Table 2-10 - Top Water Ports for International Trade: 1997
Monday, September 10, 2012
Table 2-10 - Top Water Ports for International Trade: 1997
| By 20 foot equivalent units (TEUs) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Rank | Port name | TEUs |
| 1 | Long Beach, CA | 2,673,199 |
| 2 | Los Angeles, CA | 2,084,924 |
| 3 | New York,NY/NJ | 1,738,391 |
| 4 | Charleston, SC | 955,488 |
| 5 | Seattle, WA | 953,304 |
| 6 | Oakland, CA | 843,066 |
| 7 | Norfolk, VA | 769,718 |
| 8 | Miami, FL | 623,658 |
| 9 | Houston, TX | 609,451 |
| 10 | Tacoma, WA | 551,164 |
| By value (billions of current U.S. dollars) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Rank | Port name | Value |
| 1 | Long Beach, CA | 85.3 |
| 2 | Los Angeles, CA | 73.4 |
| 3 | New York, NY and NJ | 68.0 |
| 4 | Houston, TX | 37.1 |
| 5 | Seattle, WA | 33.6 |
| 6 | Charleston, SC | 27.3 |
| 7 | Oakland, CA | 25.4 |
| 8 | Norfolk, VA | 25.0 |
| 9 | Tacoma, WA | 19.6 |
| 10 | Baltimore, MD | 18.8 |
| By tonnage (millions of U.S. short tons) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Rank | Port name | Tonnage |
| 1 | Houston, TX | 102.8 |
| 2 | South Louisiana, LA | 76.8 |
| 3 | Corpus Christi, TX | 62.2 |
| 4 | New York, NY and NJ | 56.7 |
| 5 | New Orleans, LA | 52.4 |
| 6 | Baton Rouge, LA | 38.4 |
| 7 | Long Beach, CA | 38.4 |
| 8 | Texas City, TX | 37.4 |
| 9 | Norfolk, VA | 35.4 |
| 10 | Beaumont, TX | 33.6 |
NOTES: Value data do not include in-transit shipments. Tonnage data, unlike port tonnage data for previous years, do not include in-transit shipments.
SOURCES: TEU data: U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, Office of Statistical and Economic Policy, based on data from the Journal of Commerce, Port Import and Export Reporting System (PIERS).
Value data: U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, Office of Statistical and Economic Policy, Annual Waterborne Databanks 1996, 1998.
Tonnage data: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Navigation Data Center, special tabulation, December 1998.